Norway awarded stakes in 62 offshore oil and gas exploration licences to 24 energy companies, including state-controlled Equinor, opens new tab, boosting the amount of acreage offered as the country seeks to pump for decades to come

The Secretary-General of OPEC, Haitham al-Ghais, said during a panel discussion at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai that stating that oil has to remain underground will not lead to an energy transition but to energy chaos

Basim Mohammed, Iraqi Deputy Minister of Oil for Exploration and Production Affairs, stated that the resumption of crude oil exports from the north depends on renegotiating the current production-sharing contracts to a profit-sharing model

This marks the second discovery by the company in Block 52, with the first one in 2020, confirmed by Petronas Suriname E&P, a subsidiary of Petronas, and Suriname’s national oil company, Staatsolie

Shell, Argentina’s YPF and Houston-based APA Corp are among the companies awarded licenses. Ancap estimates the potential oil and gas in place is around 20 billion barrels

Easing sanctions has been a carrot held out in the past by the U.S., but which so far has resulted in very few authorizations, including one to Chevron Corp that has allowed the firm to expand operations in Venezuela and export its oil to the United States since November

Britain committed to granting hundreds of licences for North Sea oil and gas extraction as part of efforts to become more energy independent

China National Petroleum Co (CNPC) said that it plans to produce new shale oil from formations within the existing Daqing oil field area that will help replenish production in decrease of that site

Saudi Arabia shipped 6.1 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil in September, slightly above August levels, and kept output steady at 8.974 million bpd last month, an industry source familiar with the matter said

Ecuador’s government will allow private companies to import and sell some fuels for industrial and commercial use, ending a monopoly state-owned Petroecuador had in the sector, the energy ministry said